skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Houses have always been a lousy investment for me. Once you factor in all the costs (property tax, insurance, repairs, 6% real estate commissions, the time the house sits empty waiting for a buyer, etc.) the returns are not that good at all.

Most people think: "I bought my house for $200,000 and sold it for $300,000, I made $100,000!!!!!" and neglect to do a proper accounting.
Very happy to hear this!
People complain about this relentlessly, but never change.

Additionally, every single business owner I know complains that whatever it is they're selling, (1) it isn't worth the brain damage to sell to customers looking for the lowest price, (2) as long as people comparison shop in a harebrained way, hook pricing (aka up front pricing that looks low and turns out high) is only rational. It's not like they're providing a bad service for the cost.
> this means something most business refuse to accept - that their grand strategy, their Vision, might be total bollocks

Actually this is often talked about, but only internally to the senior team. You generally don't want to be saying "actually widgets might be a bad idea" which might horribly demoralise your widget factory workers, when you might well conclude after discussion and analysis that actually they're still a good idea.
I should check it on a more recent release, but at least on Chrome 80-ish and earlier CSS transforms were evaluated fully in software mode when blending filters or transparency effects were active, at least on mac os.
We really need laws that allow customers to set a legally-binding max spend per month on any service, after which it's upto the company to suspend services.

This should apply to everything -- cloud compute, healthcare, phone bills, internet services, everything.
It’s used for gerrymandering: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/gerr...
I've heard good things about UptimeRobot.
Wow where do you live that it gets to be -40!

I live in NYC, where it gets cold sometimes, and my merino wool base layers from REI work great. I've never owned a heavy duty winter jacket in my years here.
A beginner's guide to sociopolitical collapse
Only if you talk about things other than blockers (and say hi to your teammates). Standup isn't a status update, etc.
> it's still the same house

What a house is worth is what someone else will pay you for it. There is no intrinsic worth to it.
> debt for housing, which is a depreciating asset in normal times (housing wears out, land may become more expensive) is not a great idea, but it has been normalized and when you have negative real rates & inflationary policies, as we had for over a decade, it can make a lot of sense

Has there been a 20 year stretch of time in the US in which housing is broadly a depreciating asset?

Seems that land is definitely, and housing for the most part, an appreciating asset over time due to scarcity.
Clouds have historically been designed for high-availability workloads, which are very hard to handle yourself. It doesn't always make sense for experimentation or AI training, though they might be trying to optimize more for that now. At past startups, we were fine just buying machines to run on-prem.
Yeah, I had the same experience in my area. It's so strange to see so many people (online, and locally) strongly assert that Costco has the cheapest price on many goods. It's a strangely pervasive notion. We thought that we must be missing something!

Sure, some specific items are always cheap -- like the rotisserie chicken. But outside of those few things, you really have to look for actual savings, and that's true even of baby products which so many in our area seem to get at Costco. In many cases, we would be buying something in bulk for more money than at Winco or Kroger.

Shopping there is also rather disorienting... many times an item we bought one week would be gone the next. Or items would unpredictably shift locations.

As some commenters have identified, there may be specific items you want that are in fact cheaper at Costco. And I only have personal experience from my area, which is not a big city and has cheaper local grocery prices than a more urban area. My main point is: if you've been shopping at Costco assuming you are getting a good deal, you might want to double check against other stores!
Why was the original title changed? They aren't open sourcing anything today.

They are planning to develop new tech which they might open source. But all this still has to be approved by the regulator and the government.

That said, I have seen some of the tech from the inside ~10 years ago. The ARD player was developed by a third party and there was no budget to bring this in house. Things might have changed but redoing everything just to open source it sounds like a waste of money.
I'd be curious if you guys used AI studio and Gemini 1.5, you could context stuff a few thousand .pdf pages of ICD codes and ICD application before beginning testing. I imagine that performance would improve dramatically with a million tokens of ICD in play.
You can get all natural fiber outdoor gear. Ibex, smartwool, wooly, and others make good wool gear. Outer rain layers are more rare but a few companies like Filson make them. Good rain gear existed long before plastic was invented. Treated leather and waxed cotton are two ancient waterproof outer layer technologies that work excellent, and are heavier but also more physically durable than the modern stuff.

I also feel “outer layers” are way overused. A good thick wool mid layer with natural lanolin waterproofing will work in any conditions except really strong rain, and is more comfortable and breathable. I have a vintage no longer made Ibex wool mid layer that is quite rain resistant due to very high lanolin content.
I've done a decent amount of research on the cheapest VPS providers for network-heavy applications. Take a look at Hetzner and OVH if you haven't already. Also here's a useful comparison:

https://getdeploying.com/reference/data-egress
I guess the limit is the stack size? Would that mean that output error size dependends on compiler flags?
> Plastic clothing just ends up smelling gross and needs 2x-3x the washing!

Yeah, I got some plastic based tee shirts that supposedly are composed in part from recycled bottles, which is cool, but they soak up armpit stank way more easily than shirts of other fabrics. Spray N' Wash works really well for that, though.
Yikes. You think people shouldn't be allowed to know their own wifi credentials?

Or do you think that physical access does not mean you own the device?
How exactly does one speak with their dollars in this case? Per that report, there are zero good options. There's nothing to spend my dollars on.
American citizens are, of course, allowed to have such opinions, but we're not talking about a few citizens here - we're talking about what's considered one of the most influential political lobbyist organizations in US.

AIPAC is nominally funded by "individual donations", but the problem with that it is fairly trivial for a nation-state to fund things in this manner, so it doesn't really tell us anything. And then, of course, there's the question of personal connections: if you have a private person donating huge amounts of money to AIPAC, and they just happen to be heavily involved with the governing political party in Israel, I would consider them an agent of the state of Israel ipso facto even if they don't have such official position (just as I would consider, say, one of Putin's pet oligarchs a Russian agent if they donate money to an American political campaign in their private capacity).
I don't know how many, but that doesn't keep me from knowing it's more than zero.

"Convincing a person that their 'I' has died" is a category error, like a married bachelor. Corpses can't know they're dead, and anything simulating life for the corpse isn't a person to convince.

There might be some other entity deserving of rights that does exist. I'm not about to argue that only persons deserve rights. I don't think a horse is a person, but I do think it has a right not to be abused. There's a meaningful discussion to be had about what rights the corpse and simulation ought to have in this circumstance.

But "convincing a person their 'I' has died" is self-contradictory. Being able to put the words together in a syntactically coherent sentence doesn't make the idea possible.
AI code also alternates between technical levels IE: you'll see a part that looks like it was trained on beginner tutorials followed by another part that's looks trained on ripped open source projects.

Sometimes just really silly things like 3D vector math written in a form that would easily support higher dimensions for whatever reason.
Isn't the latter CPI adjusted, but not the former?
Well no, the agent's model of the other person is just data, but this model is so convincing that most people don't perceive it as such and they're thoroughly convinced of the realness of the other person.

Consensus matters because if people around you disagree with you they will kill you or put you in prison. At rock bottom this is how all laws and ethical norms are created.
Most of the revenue from AdSense etc. goes to the site, i.e. if there are Google ads on a newspaper's website, the newspaper is getting more of the advertiser's money than Google. The problem is this is less money than they used to get, and a lot of the sites aren't journalistic outlets, so the money gets spread pretty thin.

In theory Google and Facebook could use their cut to fund journalism, but is that really what we want? The vast majority of journalism funded (and therefore controlled) by a small handful of megacorps?

Far better to make it sustainable for individual independent journalists to make living.
These generally aren't refurbed drives, they are used drives that sat in a datacenter for 3-5 years.
It's funny that "We managed to get our hands on a handful of H100s/A100s" is an actual (and profitable) tech business model right now.
A great implementation of current technology. i just wonder what is going to happen to the interview process when everybody will become sophisticated by using such tools!?
* Simple markdown-like markup language with math support for my website/blog. I did it so that I get nice SVG equations that show up without things jumping around all the time while it's rendering. https://github.com/dllu/dllup

* Some janky scripts to download photos from my camera's SD card and upload it to my Backblaze B2 for sharing: https://github.com/dllu/pupphoto

I also have a personal "new tab homepage" with links to my favourite websites, forms for my favourite engines/search etc, the current weather where I live (with temperature in Kelvin), and the current date/time.
Wikipedia is very much scathed on many topics. Especially on political or social subjects, gatekeeping editors watching their pet pages can easily maintain bias or sanitize articles.

Unless you want your week consumed wiki-lawyering your edits to overcome them, the bias remains.
People are allowed to throw out a piece of paper with their wifi password written on it as well.
Many electoral districts are smaller than counties, or even cities/townships.
Reminded me of the 2016 dystopian short film HYPER-REALITY,

where AR technology is used for exactly the opposite:

superimposing ads and a million other virtual distractions over the real world.

https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs?si=YkiRZ60HZYnXglUP
In Berlin, only a small percentage of landlords beat inflation. It's a lot of work and a low return for an illiquid investment. Depending on the timing, many qualify housing as a lifestyle decision instead of an investment.

Aside from what you've mentioned, the state can raise the efficiency standard to protect the environment, raise the cost of services, or make you pay to rebuild the street or sidewalk in front of your home. Then come the maintenance: new roof, new windows, new kitchen and so on.

If your country has good tenant rights, there are not so many reasons to buy. It's better to invest the money for a while.
A trading instrument can be both a commodity and a security and thus subject to regulation by the CFTC and the SEC.

Most issuers try very hard to keep their instrument in one bucket to avoid the kind of issues that cryptocurrencies are dealing with.
The Glomar Explorer wasn't unique because of it's mobile derrick. There were any number of ships designed for that purpose. It was notable for its deep sea mining of exotic minerals, such as manganese. To date, there still isn't a ship capable of doing such a task and this particle ship was positioned in a public school textbook as having done so.
The IRGC was going to make sure Hamas continued to exist, to the extent it needed external support at all. Hamas isn't a creation of Israel; Israeli support is not the rationale for its continued existence.
I mean this is why a lot of first world countries have consumer protections that demands the retailer/service publishes prices up front. Course in the US there is quite a counter lobbyist group that prevents just that from happening.
I disagree. I feel like this is something they teach you to do in composition classes - i.e. a hook.
Wonder if it's like taking a screenshot of video on mac.

They don't want you to be able to do that.

(you get a blank area where the video is)
Costco gets at a core American value, but it's not communism. It's the DIY, bootstraps attitude that Americans love. You get a deal but you basically shop from a warehouse that was built for forklifts, not customers. The displays are just pallets with a price board set on top.

Costco does an amazing job of delivering a product (quality food and merchandise) without any of the additional frills that would lead to markups, like nice ambiance or displays. That is a huge deal for millions of Americans who are happy to shop on bare concrete floors if it means saving money.
The rise of custom software spending
Pokemon was never like this though. It was always unfair, because you always had to buy two different games (red+blue, gold+silver, etc) to win either of them.
The executive summary of this article (for me) is: burst the delusion bubble around your stake holders. This is admirable, but that delusion existed in the first place for a reason. The reason still exists.
The Curious Life of a Singing Fish
If you turn the anti-cheat off, you have to restart your computer. That is a hurdle that more than 0 users will run into.
Like the GDPR. I wonder what the car does in Europe.
+1 for Deadman's Snitch. We use that at work. It's groovy.
Alternatives: foundation, plumbing, substructure, support work, support structure, backend, sustainability, backstage, logistics
The Ocean Is Missing Its Rivers
> Minus33 is a New Hampshire, USA company (minus33.com) that makes a hard wearing 100% merino wool fleece. Their "expedition" weight is heavy, but WARM. I have two of these.

When looking for a good 100% Merino wool beanie, I came across these guys, but sadly they barely retail in Europe and the international shipping they charge makes it absolutely not worth it.
The tech industry doesn't deserve optimism it has earned skepticism
I like to increment the most significant digit of my terminal history size every time I run into a compiler error that exceeds the previous value. On Saturday, it went up from 40k to 50k.

I laugh to hide my pain.
It kinda makes sense if you render objects as json (vanilla apiserver use protobufs on the wire except for crds). Im curious if mongodb supports CAS semantic properly - i heard transactions are still a pain there
Aren't they killing it in this space?

Nvidia love OCI I thought I read
So far, we have prioritized connectors that most of our users requested, including Redpanda, PubSub, and Event Hubs. We will add SQS and EventBridge to our backlog. It shouldn't be too hard to add these connectors; for example, adding the PubSub connector took a few weeks. Thanks for your feedback! :)
I know Dredge, and yes, that's a good comparison! Both games have an eerie atmosphere that I find comforting.
When it's -40, you will have to pry my wool an down jacket from me. No way you're getting me to wear plastic in those temperatures.
Samsung developed a microplastic filter that works with any washing machine.

Claims to capture 98% of microplastics.

It compacts the lint so that you only need to empty it once a month. Reports remaining capacity via SmartThings.

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-launches-less-microf...
This one is my favorite: https://www.getanyplant.com/plant/2500f2a3a54f3eb7b6163879ec...
> Go to Qatar and strike up a conversation like the ones that are had millions of times per day in the US about how awful/incompetent/evil/illegitimate the government is.

What is the point of this with respect to the comment it is replying to? Is it intended to be a disproof of some kind?

And while we're at that (comparing Qatar to the US), should we also consider other metrics? Like, oh, I don't know...say Total Body Count on the International Stage? I'm fairly certain being alive is at least as important to most people as Freedom of Speech.

> It's you who is degrading the meaning of these things.

Appeals to the perfection of one's own cognition are getting a bit old. It's 2024 ffs.

> You can go experience the difference for yourself.

Realistically, most people are mostly stuck where they are, and I would rather not engage in illusory thinking about the quality of my country to make myself feel better. But of course, each to his own.
Copyright doesn't apply to typefaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
Yes but I think they're referring to negative equity.
Saying that something will happen across the multiverse is stating a certainty, so long as it's physically and logically possible. Every absurdly unlikely thing will happen in that sense. Everybody will, somewhere (and somewhen) become purple with flashing yellow spots. That's very different from saying "I expect to experience this happening", which is a statement about what's probable.
People get into philosophical trouble with this because humans have a hard-wired system for what's part of your body and what isn't. That's a survival trait.
Problems with that system cause phantom limb syndrome, self-injury, and other body-model disorders.[1]

We're looking at a protection system from the inside.
Brains are internally interconnected distributed systems, but we're evolved not to
feel that way.
Trying to reconcile that drives philosophers and theologians into inventing dualism, souls, and other hacks to explain the concept of a unified mind. That goes back at least two millennia and hasn't helped much.

Brains are distributed systems. They have features to drive them towards eventual internal consistency. Failures of those features underlay schizophrenia and similar disorders. Has neuroscience explored eventually-consistent system theory yet? That might be useful.

[1] https://wolpertlab.neuroscience.columbia.edu/sites/default/f...
> I have a 30 year mortgage on my house with a 2.75% interest rate. That has effectively given myself "rent control"

This only works in places with fixed property tax. When I lived in Texas my property tax went up hand over fist every year as my property increased in value and automatic reassessments occurred. If your salary remains relatively stagnant and does not increase with cost of living (most salaries are subject to this) then you can certainly find yourself being subject to nuevo rent rates as a long time mortgage holder.

I do agree with you that different types of debt should be classified differently.
Amd will never figure out drivers and software stuff. That’s always been their weakness
Data Gravity. If you already have all your data in AWS, and your app that is generating new data is in AWS, it makes a lot of sense to get bare metal in AWS to do batch workloads on that data, so there is no egress fees.
I was about to call that the Rundfunkbeitrag is not legally a tax (Steuer), but a tax (Beitrag). For some reason that difference does not seem to exist in English and it translates to the same word??
I could have sworn there was source for it a few years ago but looking again I can’t seem to find it. I think the dev might have taken it down because others were reusing his code according to r/jailbreak

Anyway I do trust the developer, he’s been at it a number of years working on this thing, and most importantly it really does work well, blocking the most amount of ads vs other blockers. He’s obviously not a web dev and the jailbreak scene is kind of scrappy so I can forgive the website. Look past the formatting and see what’s there. If you want to use the method but not run any code you can manually supervise your idevice but you have to backup / wipe / restore in order to do it on stock iOS. The pac scripts are open source and you can self-host them if you’re truly paranoid.
Universal grammar theorists freak out whenever this is said, but I think that's because those translated sentences and possibly even logic beneath it just aren't valid in that language and culture, in your case Dutch. Else everything should perfectly translate between any arbitrary languages without adding unnatural or uncomfortable components.
Is there any major company that's respected a "lifetime license" for more than five or ten years? Every one I've bought was eventually reneged on.
Wow blocked by my work filter for "Compromised Sites" wonder how old that entry is.
power strips with a switch are good. Switch the whole desk on one, then the monitors on another subsidiary to that. eat that, standby spyware and power load!

if you want more complication, arduino controlled relay setups are not difficult to construct, and you have the confidence of knowing what they're made of.
Hiding blatant fraud behind the label of “convenience”. Every industry. Pay for Amazon prime to get 2 day shipping “for free”. Item arrives in six days. Prime does not get refunded.

Pay +10% for “priority” rides in Lyft, supposed to arrive in 1-5 minutes, whereas “regular” is 7-15. Car shows up in 18 minutes. Priority payment does not get refunded.

Honestly what’s even the point in caring anymore. Living in America is about getting grifted until you can hopefully figure out your own grift. The irony of posting this thought on this website is intentional.
Livestock are also necessary for regenerative farms that do not require outside sources of fertilizer. Hardline veganism requires petrochemical fertilizer.
Yeah if it is a prion disease, it might be transmitted.
More Layoffs at Tesla
Rudy Rucker points out, in one of his SF books, that free will and random number generators are the same thing.
Why not simply use GPS spoofing for your phone? There's even a whole subreddit on that subject /r/PokemonGoSpoofing with all the necessary guides.
Quite the variety of problems, really. I'm seeing them work on word problems, graphing, geometry, etc. The best resource I've found is https://www.math-aids.com . It's pretty close to the mark, actually, but some of the domains are just a bit rigid in their configuration so I'm scoping out anything else.
in Raku, this

data.store.book.filter(_.price < 10).map(_.title)

would be written as

data.store.book.grep(*.price < 10).map(*.title)
If you want something interesting on that topic, here's a fantastic explanation of one complex part of modern graphics hardware and how it varies across vendors https://www.gfxstrand.net/faith/blog/2022/08/descriptors-are...
This looks pretty neat to play around with, too bad the download link appears dead.
Could it be a discount for purchasing an entire month’s worth of capacity? Even if so, such costing plans should be explicit in the article
Do you consider non-persons have an "I"? I presume you do, because otherwise there wouldn't be anyone to deserve rights.

In that case, the question is still valid: how would you convince the non-person "I" that the "I" is dead?

(I can see how the original "person I" might be dead after such a change, but it doesn't really make the premise invalid.)